Our trip to New York City was very bad for our financial health, in that we wound up finding certain books irresistible. Here are a few highlights, not including books gifted to us by Lawrence Schimel, and the book accompanying the Alexander McQueen fashion exhibit. I’ll be covering those in two separate posts…

Which of these doesn’t go with the others? The one on the right is an Archipelago book, btw—they do awesome editions.

I picked up an extra copy of the Straub-edited antho for my contributor copy library. The Grant is by an author previously known for his fantasy and science fiction novels. This one is about World War II and by all accounts supposed to be great.

I have no idea what In a Strange Room is about, but I can’t resist Europa editions. It could be four hundred pages about an ant getting stepped on and I’d buy it. As for the Herzog…c’mon, who can NOT buy that!?

I’ve already got a (shorter) collection of Rodoreda’s stories, but this one looks more definitive, with new translations (one of which appears in our Weird antho). The other book was gifted to us by Richard A. Kirk, and I can’t wait to dive in. Looks surreal and grotesque and marvelous.

Yeah, that’s right, I like Martin Amis, all you Amis haters. He’s usually pretty brilliant. Just don’t go in wanting to read about nice people. He doesn’t usually write nice people. Ooh–and there’s Happily Ever After, the new antho edited by John Klima.

About Jeff VanderMeer

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Jeff VanderMeer's most recent fiction is the NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance), released in 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Foreign rights have sold in 17 countries and the movie rights have been acquired by Paramount Pictures/Scott Rudin Productions. His latest nonfiction books include Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (Abrams Image). His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Atlantic.com, Vulture.com, and the Los Angeles Times. VanderMeer recently taught at the Yale Writers’ Conference and has lectured at MIT and the Library of Congress. You can contact him at pressinfo at vandermeercreative.com. (Author photo by Kyle Cassidy.) More...